This portrait head is long, slim and startlingly modern in style, the strong brows combining with the small mouth to give it a real intensity. It is the best known of a group of portraits which were once thought to represent court-eunuch and writer, Eutropius, who was active in the court of the emperor Valens, 364-378 CE
Number:
642
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 880
Size:
0.32m
Accession:
Robert Cook bequest. Purchased from Bertolin of Munich, 20 May 2005
Date:
5th century CE
Provenance:
Ephesos
